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2025 1

  1. LLMs make embarrassingly parallelizable scripts even more embarrassingly parallelizable

2024 2

  1. Grief
  2. Demystifying git submodules

2023 21

  1. Remembering my father Yevgeniy Mazin, 1964-2023
  2. Why does writing 14 bytes to a file write 73 kilobytes to disk?
  3. A disk is a bunch of bits
  4. How does Linux really handle writes?
  5. Hello, new subscribers.
  6. Reddit is OpenAI’s Moat
  7. What’s Writing to My Brand-new Disk?
  8. On OpenAI's Terrible Arguments Against Transparency
  9. In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy
  10. Using ChatGPT to Generate Git Commit Messages
  11. Lab Notes: Confirming That Writes Get Buffered
  12. Lab Notes: Confusing myself with data
  13. Lab Notes: A Whole Lot About Disks and File Systems
  14. Programming Note: No Lab Today
  15. Lab Notes: Something weird is happening with sysbench
  16. Lab Notes: Throughput vs Duration
  17. Lab Notes: Installing Docker Engine using Ansible
  18. Lab Notes: Provisioning Ubuntu on an old Intel Macbook Pro
  19. Lab Notes: Running a basic sysbench MySQL benchmark
  20. I Hereby Declare a Sabbatical
  21. A crash course in black-box monitoring

2021 1

  1. Let’s play: I've lost my website!

2017 1

  1. Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect